Mount Isa city centre, Australia Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler Australien
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- Aug 14, 2023, 9:33pm
- 🌙 20 °C
- Altitude: 354 m
- Australia Queensland Mount Isa Mount Isa city centre -20.723753, 139.4894220°43’26” S 139°29’22” E
Day 246
Mount Isa
August 14, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
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Heute ging es für uns zum ersten Mal in den Bundesstaat Queensland. Somit waren wir jetzt in allen Bundesländern in Australien. Es fühlt sich echt verrückt an. Sonst ist heute eigentlich nicht viel passiert in den 4 Stunden Autofahrt. Abgesehen von dem Waldbrand den wir mal wieder gesehen haben. Diesmal waren ganze Stücke jedoch noch in Flammen und ich hatte so ein beklemmendes Gefühl. So traurig zusehen.

Am Campingplatz wurden wir noch mehrfach gewarnt, dass Aborigines in Autos einbrechen. Eine Frau zwei Stellplätze weiter kam zu uns und sagte uns, dass vor zwei Tagen in ein Caravan eingebrochen wurden während die Leute schliefen. Wie merkwürdig muss es wohl sein, wenn jemand in deine Privatsphäre eindringt. Ich hoffe alles läuft gut, da wir unser dachzelt nicht abschließen können.Read more
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Traveler A Big Lap of Australia
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- Sep 16, 2022, 7:02am
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 350 m
- Australia Queensland Mount Isa Mount Isa city centre -20.723879, 139.49266120°43’26” S 139°29’34” E
Day 12
Day 12 Mount Isa to Tennant Creek
September 16, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Mount Isa to Tennant Creek, lots to see! 🥺 670k’s of the same lol, you turn onto the Barkley Hwy and the GPS says “turn left in 634k’s” stopped for fuel at Camooweal and had coffee! Then across the border into the NT (Stubbie holder out for The Acorn Bar & Restaurant) and a long straight road to the Barkly homestead for another fill. Leaving early worked well with us in the pool at Tennant creek by 15:30. But you can’t buy grog until 4pm and then there are restriction. Quiet dinner with a few ciders and off to Mataranka hot spring tomorrowRead more
Traveler Australian roads …. Ugly & beautiful all at the same time. What an opportunity & wonderful experience. Take it all in and enjoy the journey.
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Traveler Around Australia via highway 1
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- Jun 28, 2019, 11:58am
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 355 m
- Australia Queensland Mount Isa Mount Isa city centre -20.725887, 139.49134820°43’33” S 139°29’29” E
Mount Isa ... the ISA ....
June 28, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Had a bit of an issue finding the centre of town but made it to the Coffee Club anyway. Fields of termite mounds on the way here, not large but lots of smaller ones less than a metre. Many areas like that on the ride into town. A couple of smoke stacks were evident but large mounds for tailings to the west of the town were all we could see of the processing.Read more
Traveler I see that you cottoned on to the local language already?
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Traveler Mt Isa or Bust....
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- Feb 27, 2021
- ☀️ 33 °C
- Altitude: 348 m
- Australia Queensland Mount Isa Mount Isa city centre -20.72557, 139.4927120°43’32” S 139°29’34” E
Day 4
There are no camels or desert!!
February 27, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Travel day, heading to Mt Isa through Winton, Kyuna, McKinley and Cloncurry. Not a huge amount to see on the road for most of the way, lots of flat farming land, which is pretty green at the moment, great news for the farmers. I spotted a buffalo, but it could have been a big cow lol. McKinley is the home of the "Walkabout Creek Hotel" from Crocodile Dundee, that is the only thing there, lots of nothingness and then a pub! Heaps of movie memorabilia, and a bloke there told us where to find the waterhole from the crocodile scene, apparently it was shot at "Fountain Springs", we can day trip it there from Mt Isa, so it's on the list! Lots of road trains, they can get up to 53m long, we overtook a triple...I don't think I took a breath lol. They all seem to carry cattle, Shaun got sprayed with cow piss as one passed us going the other way, probably not best to sit behind one then!

We stopped for fuel in Cloncurry and the fun began, the Cv on one side was split!! Yep the new one put in at Emerald!!! So after some advice we decided to push on to Mt Isa, we really didn't have a choice. I whispered "its all part of the adventure", not sure I had great timing with that one! Cloncurry to Mt Isa is 120km, we did it at 80km/hr....stopping to let the cv cool down at you guessed it "Fountain Springs", apparently there are camels here, didn't see any though. The road from Cloncurry is AMAZING, no desert, just lots of rocky outcrops and amazing green gullies at every turn, definitely the highlight of our trip so far! I wished I had my bike here, hopefully I will get to ride this road when we get the bikes with us. As we came around a bend we saw Mt Isa and its smoke stacks in the distance, so very strange to see the mine right in the middle of town and after such amazing bush scenery on the way.

We limped into what will be our home for a while "Moondarra Caravan Park". We have work here and the cruiser yet again needs repairs! Our first impressions were positive, the people are very casual and welcoming, we have a great river front site and we are invited to a day drinking party at the pool tomorrow...so off to a great start!! More tomorrow when we have settled in and got organised....
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Looks awsum [Tanya]
2/27/21Reply
Looking forward to this stretch. [Shannon Boston]
3/1/21Reply
Traveler It was an experience lol...Cloncurry to Mt Isa is the best bit :-)
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Traveler 2023 - NSW, QLD, NT & WA
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- Jun 5, 2023
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitude: 358 m
- Australia Queensland Mount Isa Mount Isa city centre -20.726336, 139.49316420°43’35” S 139°29’35” E
Day 72
Mount Isa
June 5, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Mount Isa, probably not what I was expecting. The mine is in the heart of the town & is huge 🤯
A few of the tours weren't operating at the time we were there & we didn't want to hang around so we chose to visit the underground WWII hospital.
It was interesting, didn't realise the bombs hit Mt Isa. The hospital was very small to accommodate the amount of patients in the dayRead more
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Traveler Highway one.
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- Jun 28, 2019, 12:06pm
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 355 m
- Australia Queensland Mount Isa Mount Isa city centre -20.72585, 139.4912520°43’33” S 139°29’29” E
Day 31
Mt Isa
June 28, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Centre of town at the coffee club.
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